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Monday, July 28, 2014

Ultrafast polarization response of an optically-trapped single ferroelectric nanowire

Sanghee Nah , Yi-Hong Kuo , Frank Chen , Joonsuk Park , Robert Sinclair , and Aaron Lindenberg

One-dimensional potassium niobate nanowires are of interest as building blocks in integrated piezoelectric devices, exhibiting large nonlinear optical and piezoelectric responses. Here we present femtosecond measurements of light-induced polarization dynamics within an optically-trapped ferroelectric nanowire, using the second-order nonlinear susceptibility as a real-time structural probe. Large amplitude, reversible modulations of the nonlinear susceptibility are observed within single nanowires at megahertz repetition rates, developing on few-picosecond time-scales, associated with anomalous coupling of light into the nanowire.

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